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MERIDEN – Urban planner Renata Bertotti will leave the city at the end of this month to an urban planner in Newington.
Bertotti delivered his resignation letter to the city administrator, Tim Coon, on Friday, announced Coon at Monday night’s City Council meeting, and his resignation will take place on October 23.
“She has been a great asset to the city in her short time and we will miss her deeply,” Coon said. “I wish you the most productive of luck in your new position. “
Bertotti has lived in Newington for 4 years and lives a few steps from City Hall. He liked closeness as well as a “better work-life balance. “Newington, a suburb about thirteen miles south of Hartford, has a population of approximately 30,000.
“It’s a smart community, it’s a little bigger there. . . it’s a smaller town and less responsibility,” Bertotti said.
The resolution to leave Meriden is not simple, he said.
“We will miss a Meriden. La the network has been incredibly helpful and I will appreciate it forever,” he said.
Bertotti was hired in Meriden in 2018 as an urban planning assistant before being promoted to urban planner in late 2018, succeeding Bob Seale. She worked as a senior planner for the city of Manchester for 11 years before arriving in Meriden. Planning, Paul Dickson, is running lately as Bertotti’s number two.
After assuming this position, Bertotti stated that Meriden’s position as Director of Planning is highly valued in the plan-making network due to the diversity of the city and investments in the center and transit-oriented progression area.
“I feel that Meriden is a perfect and suitable city for planners,” Bertotti said this week. “. . . In fact, I can tell you that I’ve learned a lot here. “
One of Bertotti’s main objectives was to build an acceptance among stakeholders.
“Sometimes they asked me what my vision was for the city and I said, “I’m not necessarily a planner who cares about design to the point where I’m going to sit down and design a site progression for a candidate. “She said. My main purpose is to create the relationships in which a developer can accept it as true with me, and I can accept it as true with the commission, and the commission in turn can accept it as true with the developer and the public can accept it as true with us. All. And I think that has been greatly replaced in the last two and a half years. “
During his tenure, Bertotti oversaw the adoption of a new conservation and progression plan and praised his colleagues and councillors for leading a series of rebuke projects and adjustments to zoning laws.
Bertotti designed the “adaptive reuse overlap zone”, unanimously followed by the town hall last year. The new regulations are intended to inspire the remodeling of ruined advertising and advertising buildings. serve alcohol from opening within 1,500 feet of each other.
More recently, Bertotti and his were proposing radical adjustments to the city’s approval procedures and criteria for zoning permits, location plans and special exceptions. selling a higher quality of progression. “
Bertotti said the initiative would continue after his departure, adding that he had done about 90% of the “great work. “
“I hope this continues transparently, ” said Bertotti.
Bertotti’s branch recently submitted an application for a new special exception and criteria for approving the site plan. The application can be viewed in the city and a hearing is expected by the end of this year.
“We are running in the uses department between what can be approved as a right, which requires approval of the site plan and what requires a special exception, then what goes to each agency,” Bertotti said, adding that the proposal will be able to be submitted in the coming months.
“Soon there will be many adjustments in zoning here, ” said Bertotti.
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